Tattoos continue to move into the mainstream and grow in popularity with each passing day. For the talented and decorated artists behind these designs, the tattoo is not just a way of adorning the human form, but a way of honoring our bodies, celebrating our icons and loved ones, inspiring ourselves to accomplish our goals, and remembering and marking defining experiences —a way of life.
Tattoo Delirium profiles top tattoo artists around the world, exploring their inspiration, tools, techniques, strategies and thought processes for creating unique, beautiful, and inspirational tattoo designs. What defines them as artists? What were their most challenging tattoos to create? Which ones did they have reservations about? Each artist is introduced with a short biography explaining who they are and why they were drawn to the tattoo design field, notes and musings from them on their clientele and favorite tattoo designs are featured, along with full-color photographs and sketches from their extraordinary creations.
Among the artists included in Tattoo Delirium are:
Alexander Reinke Rinzing Joao Paulo Rodrigues David Sena Amanda Toy Sunny Buick Alex de Pase Adam Barton

Tattoo Delirium

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Minguet, Eva

Pop Culture

Harper Paperbacks

Kawaii Manga is the ultimate full-color instructional guide to drawing the kawaii (super cute) manga popular in contemporary cartoons, video games, advertising, and fashion designs around the world.
The word “Kawaii” originated in 1970s with Japan schoolgirls who used the term to describe everything they considered to be cute. Common worldwide today, kawaii identifies a particular trend of visual aesthetics such as Hello Kitty, the most famous example of this style. Kawaii is also a recognizable art form practiced by artists from around the world. Produced by both painters—including the acclaimed Takashi Murakami and Yoshitomo Nara—as well as commercial artists, kawaii can be found in museums and galleries, as well as on stickers, clothing, calendars, pens, pencils, erasers, video games, and other commercial items.
With this comprehensive, engaging manual, both new and experienced manga artists can master the steps for creating this colorful form—both freehand and digital—to draw a host of stunning kawaii characters. Detailed step-by-step instructions take them from initial character sketches to bright, finished designs, and show them how to master such techniques as applying digital color and 3-D vectorial drawing.
Featuring graphic full-color illustrations and detailed instructions, Kawaii Manga is sure to become the definitive how-to guide and reference for artists and manga lovers.

Kawaii Manga: Adorable!

Comics & Graphic Novels

How To Create Comics & Manga

For artists of all ages, the ultimate full-color guide to drawing a variety of adorable chibi manga characters from Kamikaze Factory Studio, the leading anime school and studio.
With their oversized heads, chubby cheeks, and enormous and expressive eyes, chibi manga is a popular art from in graphic novels, video games, and films—and one of the most difficult manga styles to master. Chibi Manga includes all of the tricks—both freehand and digital—manga artists, illustrators, and graphic designers need to create five different kinds of chibi manga characters: Ninja, Gothic, Magic, Heroines, and Heroes.
The most complete how-to-draw book on this manga style, Chibi Manga covers both manga and anime, and includes detailed information on how to apply digital color, 3D designs, vectorial drawing, and a host of other fascinating and useful design applications to go from initial black-and-white sketches to vibrant, fully costumed collections. Each project in this easy-to-follow guide includes precise step-by-step instructions, a list of specific software, tools, and professional tricks to achieve the unique look and mischievous quality of these adorable characters and animals.

Chibi Manga: Irresistible!

This is a superbly illustrated look at the finest work of 28 of the most original and cutting-edge artists and illustrators working today. "Cute Illustrations" presents readers with a visually stunning showcase of the finest work from 28 internationally renowned artists and illustrators, including Yosuke-Uena, Fawn Gehweiler, Naoshi, and Marcos Chin. Each of the featured artists have personally selected their best, and favourite works, giving readers a fascinating and unrivalled look at the talent working at the very cutting edge of today's illustration scene.

Cute illustration (English and Spanish Edition)

Arts & Photography

Instituto Monsa de Ediciones, S.A.

Cute graffiti (English and Spanish Edition)

History & Criticism

International designers and graphic artists create impressive templates to share later, in a totally altruistic manner, so their followers can download them and create fantastic paper toys. The tools are very simple: paper, scissors, glue, and some patience to put together these marvelous dolls. The most exciting part is seeing how, from a paper sheet, we can easily create from scratch a 3D object with no limit for creative possibilities. The main idea is very simple: make it yourself! The book includes 32 templates printed on excellent quality 200 gr couché paper, which can be used to create 24 fabulous paper toys, designed by artists from all over the world. Have these little pieces of art in your own house!

DIY Paper Toys: Make new friends!

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Monsa Publications

Tattoos are more than just ink on skin; they are a window into the soul of those who wear them. The New Tattoo is packed with glorious full-colour photographs that explore the amazing range and creativity of designs that can be found in today's tattoo culture, and shows how tattoo artists are influenced by art, fashion and contemporary culture from around the world.

The New Tattoo

Other Media

The DIY phenomenon is growing. Thanks to expert artists in the world of illustration and papercraft, we gathered 37 excellent quality, printed templates on couché paper of 200 gr with which to create fabulous toys of all kinds of figures. Simple, detailed patterns simulate volume and give realism to our toys, accomplishing a true work of art.

Super Cute Paper Toys - DIY

<div>El arte Kawaii ha ido creciendo en popularidad en los últimos años, gracias a una nueva generación de artistas que incluye a Aya Takano, Chiho Aoshima, y Tomoko Sawada. Son puntos de referencia en el mundo del arte kawaii. Las obras de este libro provienen de cinco artistas y se dividen en nueve ejercicios prácticos, con una galería final que muestra más creaciones de estos artistas. Algunos son profesionales de renombre mundial con muchos años de experiencia artística; Otros son jóvenes prometedores con ideas frescas e innovadoras.</div>

Kawaii Manga. Lovely! (Spanish Edition)

Graphic Design

<div>Who would not want to live in a Wes Anderson movie? This is a tribute book to Wes Anderson and the universe he has created. It highlights his most prominent characters such as Margot, Mr Fox, Sam and Suzy, Zero, Steve Zissou--his vintage trend, his nostalgic touch, his meticulously arranged sets, and his obsession with symmetry. Twenty-two international artists unveil their most personal perspectives through one or several illustrations, additionally expressing in a sentence what this wonderful, timeless, and sympathetic filmmaker means to them.</div>

Wes Anderson. Tribute (Spanish Edition)

Individual Artists

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